Re: double NAT

From: Ulrich Keil (ulrich@der-keiler.de)
Date: 07/24/01


Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:03:11 -0000
To: <kbrady22@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Re: double NAT
From: "Ulrich Keil" <ulrich@der-keiler.de>
Message-Id: <20010724000311.D3071138C1@mail.der-keiler.de>

Hi Kirk!

I have to agree Sven:

It is absolutely no problem to do as often nat as you want.

If you search information about this:

Any NAT-HOWTO matches this topic, because it doesnt matter if your
"NATing"-Firewall uses a "real" Gateway as target or an Gateway-Router who
does also NAT. The Configuration of the devices is (in theory!) the same.

Ulrich
Want to double your drivespace? Delete Windows!

>Quoting Kirk Brady (kbrady22@iprimus.com.au):
>>
>> this may be a stupid q to some but i was just wondering that if you have
>> a router connected to the net that performs NAT, and then a firewall
>> connected to the router that performs NAT as well, do all user requests
>> that are sent then get double NAT'd or does this setup not work?
>
>I have a similar configuration running @ home.
>
>Internet (DSL) - NAT-Router (Dial-on-demand) - Demil. Zone - File-Server(NAT)
>- Home-Net
>
>The DMZ (10.1.2.0/24) if for the Laptops that Friends bring with them.
>
>The File-Server offers FTP/SMB for the internal net (192.168.1.0/24) and
>does NAT.
>
>So my "Firewall" consists of 2 packet-filters with NAT and a DMZ.
>
>> once again im sorry if this seems stupid to some, but its been
>>bugging me for a while and i havent found anything that tells me.
>I had no big problems setting this up on LinuX.
>
>HTH
> Sven



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